Managing Director, Capital Formation at 1kx
Check size: Not applicable to Clare's documented capital-formation remit. No personal startup check size or allocation authority is public. Prospective LPs can approach her about 1kx fund relationships; founders should use 1kx's investment team and official channels.
Clare's mandate is to connect institutional capital with 1kx's blockchain investment strategy. Her official biography combines more than a decade in venture capital, private equity, growth equity, startup operations and investment banking with responsibility for LP relationships and fundraising execution. Her public research work on onchain revenue helps translate network fundamentals and market maturity into an institutional capital narrative; it is not evidence of personal deal ownership.
Do not send Clare a generic founder deal pitch. For an LP discussion, state the institution, role and authorization, mandate, allocation size range, geography, liquidity and risk constraints, existing digital-asset exposure, strategy or vehicle of interest, diligence stage, requested material and decision timeline. Use secure 1kx channels for confidential information and route company opportunities to the investing team.
For capital formation: long-term LPs with a clear mandate, serious understanding of blockchain's risk and return profile, disciplined diligence, aligned liquidity horizons, transparent decision processes, global perspective and willingness to evaluate networks through fundamental adoption and revenue rather than short-term narrative alone.
No personal startup pass criteria are attributable. Founder pitches presented as if Clare were an investment partner are misrouted. LP conversations are weakened by unclear authority, incompatible liquidity or risk constraints, unsupported performance claims, superficial crypto exposure, incomplete diligence requests or pressure to bypass secure firm processes.
Map strategy, stage, liquidity, geography, concentration, governance and risk to an institution's explicit mandate before advancing fundraising diligence.
Connect network usage, revenue sources, retention, incentives and durability to the risk, return and portfolio-construction language institutional allocators use.
Organize strategy, team, track record, attribution, portfolio construction, valuation, liquidity, custody, compliance, operations and reporting into a secure diligence trail.
Treat capital formation as a long-term, cross-border relationship built through consistent education, transparency, responsiveness and mandate alignment.
Distinguish authority over fund fundraising and LP relationships from authority to select portfolio companies or set founder check sizes.
Onchain activity can be evaluated through revenue quality, business-model durability and maturing network fundamentals rather than token-price narrative alone; Clare is credited as a 1kx contributor.
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